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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Friend Quotes and Sayings

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard PHOTO

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow


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